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EXERGY ANALYSIS IN ENERGY SYSTEMS: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATION
Hamidreza Shabgarda,*
, Amir Faghrib
a School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
b Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2019, 12, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.12.9
Abstract
Fundamentals of exergy analysis in energy systems are reviewed and presented in a cohesive and general manner for the study of energy systems. The
exergy analysis is applied to several engineering systems and processes, namely fuel cells, latent heat thermal energy storage, heat exchangers and
thermal desalination systems to obtain insight on the best optimization strategies as well as the theoretical limits of performance. The various sources
of irreversibility and optimal operating conditions are presented for relevant applications. It is also shown that for some systems the exergy efficiency
as a function of a given parameter may have opposite trend than the first law efficiency.
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Shabgard, H. (2019). EXERGY ANALYSIS IN ENERGY SYSTEMS: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATION.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 12(1), 1–16.